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Updated: August 24, 2024
His heart responded to the beautiful as surely as the echo answers the call. He seized the guitar, and picking out the notes with clumsy, faltering fingers, sang: "Ah! The moment was sad when my love and I parted, Savourneen deelish, signan O!"
His boyish voice rang out clear and true, softening on the refrain to an indescribable tenderness that steeped the old song in the very essence of mystery and love. "As I kiss'd off her tears, I was nigh broken-hearted! Savourneen deelish, signan O!"
He could remember his mother singing him to sleep by it, and the bright red of her lips as they framed the words: "Wan was her cheek which hung on my shoulder; Chill was her hand, no marble was colder; I felt that again I should never behold her; Savourneen deelish, signan O!" As the song trembled to a close, a slight burst of applause came from the cabin deck.
The moment was sad when my love and I parted, Savourneen deelish, signan O! As I kiss'd off her tears, I was nigh broken-hearted! Savourneen deelish, signan O!" Ruth took her hand out of the water and looked at him with puzzled eyes. "Where have I heard it? On a boat somewhere, and the moon was shining. I remember the refrain perfectly." Sandy remembered, too.
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